Decoration Day

Here are some Geraniums we put at the gravestone of Mom's parents(my grandparents)yesterday at Orono Cemetery in Orono where Mom was born.Every year,they have a decoration day where people put flowers at grave sites of family members,it is usually on a Sunday but we had church today so did it yesterday.

Decoration Day 2013

Flowers Mom and I put at her parents(my Grandparents)stone on Decoration Day June 23rd.The Orono Cemetery does this the last Sunday of June for people to put flowers at family gravestones.My Grandfather Alex died in 1955 and my Grandmother Vanda died in 1961.

I wish I lived close enough to my parents resting place so that I could visit occasionally, but I'm in DE and they are in RI. Don't know that I will ever make it back up there, and I'm moving to NC soon, so that will even widen the gap.

And Decoration Day is the original old name for Memorial Day here in the U.S.

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Wolfy ~ Fuzzbutt #3

My little dog ~ a heartbeat at my feet

Sparky the Fuzzbutt - PT's DOTD 8/3/2010
RIP 2/28/1999~10/9/2012

Myndi the Fuzzbutt - Mom's DOTD - Everyday
RIP 1/24/1996~8/9/2013

Ellie - Mom to the Fuzzbuttz

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
To know just when the hands will stop - on what day, or what hour.
Now is the only time you have, so live it with a will -
Don't wait until tomorrow - the hands may then be still.
~~~~true author unknown~~~~

The cemetery where my grandparents are buried allows only artificial flowers. You aren't supposed to place items directly into the ground, other than a flag.

I've been Boo'd... right off the stage!

Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!

"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas